Today’s Prayer: Loving God, it is your desire that all should be saved. Great is your compassion and mercy because you gave us your only Son and Christ died for us all. Teach us to recognize you in all things and love you as you love us. Our prayer of deep faith today is that through the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ you will send workers into the vineyards of life to proclaim the Good News. That through your Holy Spirit of hope you will enkindle in our hearts an ardent love that can help us to do all things, to be all things and to live in your love. Be for us the Good Shepherd today and guide us along the right road to your tender love! Amen!
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Today’s Blessing Prayer: Thursday greetings and blessing to all. I hope your Thursday is getting off to a go start. We have started the day here in the New York area with sun and I am hoping it stays with us throughout the day. I hope your day is a good one too!
My prayer of blessing today is that you will have a blessed day rich in the grace of Easter. May the Risen Christ touch your life with the joy of the first Easter. May you be touch by the newness of life as you encounter others, journey through your day and celebrate the gift of life by living this day to the fullest. Peace in Christ's Passion and the Risen Lord...Fr. Paul Today’s Prayer: Be with us today O God, be with us as we wake, be with us as we watch and live this day, be with us if we weep and morn, give your angels and saints charge over us when we sleep. Tend to us, O Lord, if we are sick today, help us if we are weary to find rest today, journey with us through the last steps of life today if you are calling us. Comfort us if we are suffering today, give compassion to us if we are afflicted today and celebrate with us as we live today in your joy. We ask all of this in the grace of your love and live this day for the sake of your love for us! Amen (Adapted from a prayer by St. Augustine of Hippo)
Today’s Blessing Prayer: Happy Easter Wednesday everyone! As the morning begins here in the New York area the sun is out and it looks to be a beautiful day! I hope your day has started well and that wherever you are the sun is out or will be out and you will get to enjoy its warmth!
I send Easter blessings to all of you today. As I was spending some time in prayer this morning I reflected on the fact that whenever I get to this week each year I think of the movie Ground Hog Day, because for these eight days of the Easter Octave each day we celebrate Easter Again. So Happy Easter and may God bless you today with the gift of Easter joy wherever you are and in whatever you are doing. May you be found rich today in the grace and presence of God and may you share your Easter joy with everyone you meet. May your hearts burn today with the presence and the spirit of the Risen Lord! Peace in Christ's Passion and the Risen Lord...Fr. Paul Today’s Prayer: Jesus, we come before you at the beginning of this day. Take Lord and receive our hearts; the words of faith that we speak, the works of justice that we do, our joys and sufferings. When we come to the Eucharistic table of life, gather our offerings to your own for the life of the world. At the end of this day, place us with Mary, your mother, and for her sake take our hearts to your heart. Amen! (Adapted from a prayer by the Maryland Province of Jesuits)
Today’s Blessing Prayer: Tuesday greetings and blessing to all! I hope your Tuesday has started off well. Perhaps for some this is your first day back to work and for others it is just another Tuesday the second day in a work week. As for myself in a little while I will head out to have my car serviced before heading to the office for the day. It looks to be a nice day. Just a small chance of rain this morning but the rest of the day should be sunny!
My prayer of blessing for all of you is that your day will be filled with Easter joy as you make your own journey through it. That your encounters with others, your travel, your experiences, your times alone will be touch by our joy filled God and that your will encounter God’s loving presence in many was as you make your way through this day! Peace in Christ’s Passion…Fr. Paul Today’s Prayer: Loving Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our hearts, and reign there as our peaceful God. Enlighten us with the splendor of faith and the love of your tender heart so that we will work for the good of all your people, especially those in need, impart on us your own spirit, a spirit of discipline, serenity and gentleness preserving the flame of enthusiasm always alight in our hearts. May this day be a day when you find a home at the center of our life and are borne on our shoulders as your joyful Easter people. Amen! (Adapted from a prayer by St. John XXIII
Today’s Blessing Prayer: Easter Monday greetings and blessings to all. I hope you had a wonderful Easter Sunday and that you got to enjoy the day with family and or friends in a special way. I also hope you were able to give God a little time too!
I looks to be a nice morning here in the New York area though I think we will get rain at some point in the day. I hope you Easter Monday weather is life giving and energizing and that whatever this day brings into your life I hope it will be blessed with God’s presence, joy and love. My blessing prayer today is simply that your Easter Monday will be filled with the joy and grace. That you will encounter the Risen Christ wherever you go, in the things you do and in the people you meet. That you will live this day not fearful but overjoyed. Many blessings on this Easter Monday to all! Peace in Christ’s Passion and Joy in the Risen Lord…Fr. Paul Today’s Prayer: Loving Jesus, when all is darkness and we feel our weakness, give us the sense of your presence, your mercy, your love and your strength. Help us to have complete trust in your protecting love and strengthening power, so that nothing may frighten or worry us, for, living close to you, we will see your hand, your purpose, your will in all things. Amen. (Adapted from a prayer by St. Ignatius of Loyola)
Today’s Blessing Prayer: Happy Easter Sunday to all! I hope this finds you enjoying a beautiful Easter Sunday morning. I am bot sure what this Easter Sunday morning will bring here in the New York area as the sun is not up yet. I believe it is to be a bit cloudy but I don't think there is to be any rain. Hopefully the sun will make an appearance!
In a little while I am going to head to St. John and St. Mary Parish in Chappaqua for the 7:30 am and 9:00 am masses. Then I will return home for a quiet Easter afternoon and evening. I thank all of you for your prayers and good thoughts during my Lenten journeys they certainly helped to keep me focused and spirit filled. Life does show down a little these next few months, but I will still be busy with ministry, so I ask you to continue your prayers for the Preacher on the Run! My prayer of blessing today is that all of us will be touch by the joy of Easter and the joy of God’s mercy and love. On this most holy feast of Easter, having journeyed with Jesus through his Passion, Death to this day of Resurrection may our Good and Gracious God bless us and protect us from the struggles and perils of life. May the God who so loves us that he gave us his only Son touch us with that love today and always. And through the joyous mercy and grace of Christ may God lead us to the banquet of lasting joy. Amen – Alleluia! Enjoy your day, give God a little time and I hope you will get to celebrate today with family and friends! Peace in Christ's Passion - Joy in the Risen Lord...Fr. Paul |
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